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OVERALL
BUSINESS MODEL
Learn the essential aspects of any successful business, the impor-
tance of managing your time, and working effectively with your
employees.This chapter is aimed at readers new to owning their own busi-
ness. It’s goal is to eliminate confusion so that you can create a busi-
ness structure. Even if you have had your own business for a while,
it’s worth reviewing the fundamentals to ensure your long-term suc-
cess. Remember, excellent athletic coaches focus on fundamentals
to improve performance. The broad perspective offers the oppor-
tunity to step back and evaluate essential issues you may not con-
sider every day.
Top-Down View
Perfectionist tendencies can keep you bogged down in urgent
but unimportant details that leave you no longer in control of
your business.
Would you rather be right, or would you rather be rich?
Throughout this book, we have taught you to revolutionize
your thinking in general, not only about income-producing activ-
ities. Earning the income you want from work you love is an act
of defiance—it defies both parental conditioning and societal
conditioning.
In your own business there is no one to tell you what to do. A
very, very important decision you make every day is how to use your
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